sub-apps: over everythig only?

[integrality]

seems that subapps simply cannot be overlapped by anything. (no objects, no layers)

or not? Or is this gonna to change in future?

ps/btw/offtopic/whoah: how many days for the product shipping?

[Anders]

Subapplications are displayed in a completely seperate window and is then drawed by Windows and not MMF2. Thats how they are right now. It would be a handy feature to allow it to be displayed in the same layers are actives though and I don't think it would be difficult to program. All it should do is to draw the other frame's "ps" surface as an active object. Lets hope Yves and Francois finds time to add it to the object.

[Matt]

It's probably not as easy as you think. You can't just hide a window copy its contents because it has events that need to be handled. For example, I think handling user input would be problematic.

[FoxBlitzz]

Maybe instead of drawing to a window, it could draw to a surface, and that surface could then be inserted into the frame.

[integrality]

maybe with viewport? It could be, putting the subapp outside the viewable area with a viewport to fetch their image under the stuff, but unfortunately subapps as objects get deleted when they're outside the playing field,

thats a nice challenge tho.

[Anders]

ViewPort can only display objects and backgrounds below itself. Subapps are always above everything in the frame and isn't even drawed into the final image that MMF displays on the screen (windows does that afterwards) so ViewPort has no chance of grabbing that image.

Matt: Yeah you are right, input handling could be quite of a problem. Maybe possible if the extension send window messages to the subapp object and simulating mouseclicks and that stuff relative to the objects position.